Required Reading for Today:

Essays:

Neurotic Iraqi Wife
Peggy Noonan
Victor Davis Hanson
Selwyn Duke
Edwin Locke
Bill Whittle
Stephen F. Hayes
Abraham Lincoln (July 10, 1858 - In reference to the Fourth of July, the founding fathers, and the descendents of immigrants, which would be most Americans):

"If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us, but when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,'' and then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh of the men who wrote that Declaration, and so they are. That is the electric cord in that Declaration that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together, that will link those patriotic hearts as long as the love of freedom exists in the minds of men throughout the world."

Comments:

John Derbyshire
ChrisTheProfessor
and from Jake, via Annika regarding comments made by Brian Williams (see previous post):

"Our revolutionary army was fighting the British Army to drive them out. The terrorist's battle is fought against women and children.

The terrorists have no hope of defeating our military. The Iraqis want the terrorists killed so there is no hope there. The rest of the Middle East is horrified by their blowing up women and children.

These bombings exist only because of our MSM and the Democrats. The terrorists, the MSM and the Democrats mistakenly believe that they can convince Americans to give up. That is the terrorists only hope of victory."

You don't suppose "Jake" might be Karl Rove in disguise, do you?